Range of Housing (Supplementary) [6]

It is a difficult issue. I personally think that you are probably more likely to make progress in the short run through trying to look to new types of housing and neighbourhood management that are trying to get more common management without necessarily trying to actually force mergers, decrease or do things like that which tend, intrinsically, to be pretty complex in terms of the financial and other consequences. It is, I think, specifically encouraged in the Strategy, where in areas where you do have a large number of different associations operating, and there is no reason at all why there should not be arrangements whereby you try to establish common management perhaps with the association with the largest number of homes. There are examples of this but only a very small number.